Is there any way to restart/shutdown a phone directly from an application?
For Example: I need to restart/shutdown my Phone when i meet some specific condition...
Citations to Developer Website:
Permission to Reboot?
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission.html#REBOOT
Permission to Brick the device???
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission.html#BRICK
Method to reboot???
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/PowerManager.html#reboot%28java.lang.String%29
Method to reboot and Wipe??
Reboot Method in MonkeyRunner/MonkeyDevice:
http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/MonkeyDevice.html#reboot
There are options to brick a device but why not to power-down or restart?
I tried the following code but it throws an exception..
Manifest.xml:
Java Code:
package com.schogini.PowerOff; import android.app.Activity; import android.content.Context; import android.os.Bundle; import android.os.PowerManager; import android.view.View; import android.widget.Button; public class PowerOffActivity extends Activity { PowerManager pm; /** Called when the activity is first created. */ @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.main); pm = (PowerManager) getSystemService(Context.POWER_SERVICE); Button mBuyButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button1); mBuyButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { public void onClick(View v) { pm.reboot("null"); } }); } }
Exception thrown in LogCat:
06-10 17:58:29.001: WARN/dalvikvm(2064): threadid=3: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x4001b160) 06-10 17:58:29.001: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2064): Uncaught handler: thread main exiting due to uncaught exception 06-10 17:58:29.011: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2064): java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: android.os.PowerManager.reboot 06-10 17:58:29.011: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2064): at com.schogini.PowerOff.PowerOffActivity$1.onClick(PowerOffActivity.java:28) 06-10 17:58:29.011: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2064): at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:2364) 06-10 17:58:29.011: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2064): at android.view.View.onTouchEvent(View.java:4179) 06-10 17:58:29.011: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2064): at android.widget.TextView.onTouchEvent(TextView.java:6545) 06-10 17:58:29.011: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2064): at android.view.View.dispatchTouchEvent(View.java:3709) 06-10 17:58:29.011: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2064): at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:884) 06-10 17:58:29.011: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2064): at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:884) 06-10 17:58:29.011: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2064): at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:884) 06-10 17:58:29.011: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2064): at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:884) 06-10 17:58:29.011: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2064): at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView.superDispatchTouchEvent(PhoneWindow.java:1659) 06-10 17:58:29.011: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2064): at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.superDispatchTouchEvent(PhoneWindow.java:1107) 06-10 17:58:29.011: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2064): at android.app.Activity.dispatchTouchEvent(Activity.java:2061) 06-10 17:58:29.011: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2064): at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView.dispatchTouchEvent(PhoneWindow.java:1643) 06-10 17:58:29.011: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2064): at android.view.ViewRoot.handleMessage(ViewRoot.java:1691) 06-10 17:58:29.011: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2064): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) 06-10 17:58:29.011: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2064): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123) 06-10 17:58:29.011: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2064): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4363) 06-10 17:58:29.011: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2064): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 06-10 17:58:29.011: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2064): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521) 06-10 17:58:29.011: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2064): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:860) 06-10 17:58:29.011: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2064): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:618) 06-10 17:58:29.011: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2064): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)